About
What is this site all about?
Well this is predominantly a travel blog website as we think it is possible for us to go to every country in the world within our life time and we really just wanted to share it with all our mates. Since it’s inception, we seemed to have developed a bit of a following out there in internet land, so hopefully we’ll definitely make all the countries in the world before we die!
We are well on the way there as we have 54 countries or 23% of the World’s countries under our belt and we have just finished a 2 year world trip in 2007 having already done a 1 year world trip in 1998.
We try and avoid boring travel story stuff like “we went here and we saw this…” and instead we prefer lots of bum and fart jokes and a geeks perspective on travelling around the world.
Most of our travelling is to places that are harder to get to, and the countries we go to are usually chosen on their cool factor, or if they have any interesting unexplained Archaeology since Ced loves unsolved mysteries.
We aim to do an international trip every year so stay tuned to the site or get an RSS feed to us if you want to follow our adventures.
Who are we?
We’re a couple of Australian desk jockies in our mid 30’s who enjoy making our friend’s jealous with all the funky places we travel to. Ced is a doctor in Brisbane and Avril is in web design.
No… Who are you really?
OK… We are Red Fury (Avril), Black Mantis (Ced), and Grey Claw (Puddles)… We fight crime with our huge list of superpowers and bust new arseholes on stupid people. And we ROCK!!!
What do you like?
Funky Lounge Music, Comics, Martial Arts Movies, Exotic Food, Cats and Kittens, Breakdance & Funky Breakbeat, Retro 80s and 90’s music, Travel, Rockclimbing, Computer Games, Bubble Wrap, Fluffy Things, Toys and Action Figures, Archaeology.
What do you hate?
Cigarette smoke, People who don’t swing their arms when they walk, Body Odour, Rude Inconsiderate People, Package Tourists, Mainstream music, Cold Toilet Seats, Cold Showers, People who don’t wipe their arse properly, Dumb People, Touts.
For our country list of where we have been, you can click here.
Our first trip together was to Thailand for a month in 1996. We travelled around the north for 2 weeks, then the south for 2 more. This is when we first got infected with the travel bug.
We always talked about a bigger trip, a trip that would see us leave home for a long time. Finally, in early 1997, we decided on a date for this big trip, January 1998. We worked our arses off for the all important money that was needed to fund this extravagant trip which was to be called CED & AVRIL’S BIGARSED ADVENTURE… A trip that saw us travel for one year without working. A trip that got us to all seven continents in the world including Antartica. The most excellent trip ever took us to: New Zealand, Antarctica, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicuragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, United States of America, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, Egypt, Hong Kong, then back home to Australia. An unforgettable trip.
In 2002, we were dying to get overseas again. We wanted another challenge. We decided on a 6 week holiday, trekking from Jiri on the old route walked by Hiliary through rebel territory to the Mt Everest base camp, then over to the Gokyo Valley. We would fly out from Namche Bazaar back to Kathmandu for a few days before heading out to Singapore for some rest, relaxation and food.
That trip knackered us and we lost alot of weight. So we fattened ourselves up again, and by 2004, we were ready to shed those kilos. We took five weeks off to go back to Thailand and to also visit Cambodia. We traipsed in a circle from Bangkok, to Siem Reap, to Pnohm Penh, then to southern Cambodia to the beaches, then back into Thailand to visit more beaches and islands, then back to Bangkok. The trip finished with a week in Hong Kong for some serious shopping.
In 2005-2007 we decided that we would go and live and work in Ireland as a base to do Europe and Africa for 2 years and it was a HUGE trip and affectionately entitled CED & AVRIL’S BIGARSED ADVENTURE RELOADED!!! We started off going back to South America and doing Brazil, the Galapagos, Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua and Cuba over 3 months and then settling in Ireland where we pretty much did every country in Western Europe, Iceland, Tunisia, Quebec, Turkey and even managed to get to the World Cup in Germany. We finished up in West Africa doing Mali and the amazing Festival Au Desert, Burkina Faso and Ghana, which made it 28 new countries.
However, my grandmother ended up getting a brain tumour so we headed home early and cancelled our East Africa trip and our plans to go home via the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Where are we going now?
Well, it is now 2008 and we are back to East Africa to do Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, and then Poland and Italy and Dubai.
What’s on the list?
We plan to do some safaris and also to trek into the Impenetrable Forest to see the Gorillas in the Mist. Avril is then going to do a glassbeading course in Venice for 2 weeks while Ced bums around Europe with friends.
So stay tuned…